FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS NEWS

Hi there!We had a terrific time at all of our June shows! Thanks, everyone! A special highlight was playing for the young people of the Southern Girls Rock Camp last week. They flipped! We had so much fun, we could barely keep it together and play well. We're so grateful that they asked us back to be part of their rad and inclusive program for a second year!

We’re heading out for some tour dates tomorrow, and our July and August dates were just announced this morning! Very exciting! Posters and complete dates below. Hope to see some familiar and new faces out there! Posters and complete dates below!

First, we're so happy to announce the release of our brand new video for "WHAT YOU RAVAGE"! We collaborated with director/editor Matthew Sterling for this project and love what he brought to it. We invite you to check it out over at the Nashville Scene where it premieres today! This song and video are about grief and what we each hide beneath the surface. We hope you like it.

Second, we have a bunch of tour dates this Spring! We've been dying to get back out on the road and see all of you. Check the dates at the bottom of this post to see if we're coming to your neighborhood! If not, we'll be touring for a lot of this year. We'll do our best to come to you.

Hey there!We've been working on some art and other things that we're looking forward to sharing with you very soon! In the meantime, here are some local shows that we're excited to be part of; out of town dates to follow!

As the year draws to a close, we'd like to thank you for your support! For buying and streaming the BILL album, for attending our shows, for watching and sharing our videos, for writing about us, for letting us know you see and hear us. Thank you. We see and hear you, too.

We were honored to share the stage with so many terrific musicians this year; too many to list. We have a good deal of touring ahead in 2019 and look forward to meeting more great bands and listeners! We'll post February and March tour dates next month, but for now, we're doing some stuff close to home. We'll be live on the air with Jonathan Marx on Nashville's on WXNA own January 21st! We'll be talking about the BILL album, working with Steve Albini, why we made the record we did, and what's on the horizon for us. And we'll be playing the music of other bands and artists we admire. Be sure to tune in! Also, we're playing Media Rerun in Murfreesboro TN on February 9th. After that, we're on the road. Can't wait.

The links to everything we released this year are below. Thanks again for listening and watching. Happy new year to you.We're on your side. Keep hope alive,

To that end, please enjoy this new video for the opening track on the album, "YOUR FEAR IS SHOWING." The song gives shout-outs to some of horror's great characters while also addressing the very real fear that some of us may live with. We hope you enjoy it.

From today through midnight October 31st, we will donate the entirety of proceeds from digital sales of our new album, BILL, to the Suicide Prevention Lifeline. We will also donate a percentage of all physical sales of the album on those dates.

Thanks to Steve Albini and everyone at Electrical Audio; thanks to Matthew Barnhart and the good folks at Chicago Mastering Service! Thanks to our team: Mark Vieira, Austin Griswold, and Aaron Gray! Thanks to Zach Barocas, Iris Robert, and Ric Simenson for the stunning imagery and artwork. We are incredibly grateful. And thanks to all who have listened and will listen.

Our official album release show is on October 16th, here in Nashville. We're excited to be part of a crazy night of music with all kinds of people, and the whole event 100% benefits Best Buddies Tennessee! We'll even be donating a portion of our merch sales to the organization, including the BILL album! Additional Fall tour dates to be announced very shortly, so make sure you follow us on Bandsintown for those updates.

Thank you all so much. Thank you for your continued support. We hope you love the new music.

We're thrilled to share "SAW AND HEARD" with you all! This was one of the first songs written for the BILL album, and many of you have heard us play it on the road over the last two years. It's near and dear to us; we hope you like it. The music was produced by Steve Albini and us. We made a lyric video for this one; watch it below.

On "SAW AND HEARD":The moment at which we reclaim our personal traumas and difficult experiences is one in which we gain the power. Staring abuse and abusers in the eye and saying, “I see it now, and I see it so very clearly,” strips those forces of any power they once possessed. It’s never too late to take back what’s yours, dignity included.

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The BILL album is now only two weeks away! You can still pre-order it on vinyl, CD, or as a download, if you haven't already. And please check out the recently released videos for "WOMEN TO THE FRONT" and "HORRIFY"!

Last, thanks to all who came out to the shows we did with ROYAL THUNDER! More Fall dates to come!

We're on your side. Keep hope alive,

FC

SAW AND HEARDI’ve had cause to look back on the ins-and-outs of usthey tell me not to stare, they tell me not to stareI’ve held all the guilt for who we were right in my gutbut maybe that’s not fair, maybe that’s not fairtapes can still rewindI keep them in my mind

saw and heard you say you’re not the same as everyonesaw and heard the things you did while we were “having fun”it’s a brand new dayI think I’ll be okay

your new presentation makes you look so very wellI want to wish it so, I want to wish it sobut I’m not yet at that place, I’m sorting through the hellso I can let it go, so I can let it gothese tapes preserved just fineI played them all last night

saw and heard you say you’re not the same as everyonesaw and heard the things you did while we were “having fun”it’s a brand new dayI think I’ll be okay

all those smilesno accountability!years and mileswhere’s the accountability?HEY!

saw and heard you say you’re not the same as everyonesaw and heard the things you did while we were “having fun”it’s a brand new dayI think I’ll be okayI’m sending this your way

Please enjoy our new single and video, "WOMEN TO THE FRONT," now premiering on New Noise Magazine! The video was directed by Buick Audra, shot by Jerry Roe and Perry Bean! Noteworthy performances were contributed by Heather Donegan and Grant-Lee Phillips, among many others! Song written by Buick Audra; produced by Steve Albini and us. Cover photo by Zach Barocas; art and layout by Buick Audra and Ric Simenson.

On "WOMEN TO THE FRONT":What if, instead of competing with or steering clear of other women, we stood for and with each other? What kind of bold new frontier could we possibly create were we to abandon the trappings of old belief systems and get current? I am encouraged by recent movements of solidarity among women around the world. I crave more. Stand together. (Buick Audra)

We're on your side. Keep hope alive,

FC

WOMEN TO THE FRONT

it’s on my mind that I rarely get spoken tocommunication is what I was made to dobut I want to be someone on your sidewant to stand with you, eye to eye

I call for the heads nowwomen to the front, step up!I call for the hearts nowwomen to the front, step up

why’s it so easy to separate from our kind?the strength in numbers would benefit all our livesand you want to be someone who is heardI want you to get what you deserve

I call for the heads nowwomen to the front, step up!I call for the hearts nowwomen to the front, step up

First, the debut single from the BILL album is here! We're so happy to share "HORRIFY" with you all. Links to the song on different platforms below, as well as a link to our video for it, directed by Jerry Roe, shot by Jerry Roe and Perry Bean! Special thanks to Kat Jones, EJ Holmes Dawson, and Perry Bean for their incredible help. Song written by Buick Audra; produced by Steve Albini and us. Cover photo by Zach Barocas; art and layout by Buick Audra and Ric Simenson. If you're interested, the lyrics are at the very bottom of this post .

On "HORRIFY":We destroy that which we love; it sometimes feels safer than the alternative. But tearing down another person or a relationship also tears down part of the self. It’s a temporary fix for a bigger problem. We’d be wise to look inward instead of at the faults of others, but where’s the fun in that? In short: friendship is hard.

I’ll show you orphans sleeping on pavementI’ll show you hopeless human arrangementsI’ll show you lands with no leaders - but laws against reformstill, I’m a monster, or so you have stated

are you horrified?tell me againare you horrified?tell me all about the different lie you’re living with this time

one epidemic gave birth unto anotherthe child who struggled to thrive became a motherthen all the factors collide to rob the childhood from the childstill, you insist that I’m the enemy, the other

give me a rag to wash the makeup off my facetake off my costume, let me stand here in my placeI’m just a person in need of basic decency and gracestill, you reject me! you say I’m not the same

are you horrified?tell me againare you horrified?tell me all about the different life you’re living in this timeand this: are you are horrified?

if I were dying, you could love mebut I’m living, so you can’tif I were dying, you could love mebut I’m living, so you can’tif I were dying, you could love mebut I’m living, so you can’tif I were dying, you could love mebut you can’t

are you horrified?tell me againare you horrified?tell me all about the different ways you’re winning at this lifeand this: are you horrified?tell me againare you horrified?